Apparatus for elevating and handing up dough.



PAPPNTPD Nov. 5,. 1907. A. P. ALDRPD. APPARATUS POR'PLEVATING AND HANDING UP DOUG-H.

APPL'lcATIoN PILPD APP.12. 1907.

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ALFRED E. ALDRED, OF GLENOOE, ONTARIO, CANADA.

APPARATUS FOR ELEVATING AND'HANDING UP DOUGH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 190'?.

Application tiled April l2, 1907. Serial No. 367,742.

To all whom it inay concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED E, ALDRED, ot' the town of Glencoe, in the Province oi Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useiul Improvements in Apparatus for Elevating and Handing up 'Dough` oi which the following is a specification.

My object is to devise apparatus which will elevate dough from one machine to another and will at the same time subject it to the peculiar rolling and turning process known as handing up. For this purpose I employ a V-shaped trough oi suitable inclination or the degree oi elevation required having one side formed by a traveling band or canvas, and provided with a pressure bar which holds the dough down in the angle o the V.

Figure I is a cross section of my improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a side elevation o the same, partly broken away and partly in section.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different iigures.

A is the trame ot the apparatus, which may be of any suitable construction to support the different parts. On this traine is supported a V-shaped trough, the angle of the V being downward. This trough may have any desired inclination irom its lower to its upper end, depending upon the height to which the dough is to be lifted. One side B oi the trough is iixed while the other side is formed by a traveling band or canvas C, which is supported by the backing D. This canvas runs on a roller E at cach end oi the trough, the spindles of the rollers being journaled in suitable boxes supported by the frame A. One of the rollers is geared by bevel gearing F to the shaft G joui'- naled on the frame A, and providedwith suitable driving means, such as the fast and loose pulleys H and I. An upward movement longitudinal of the trough may thus be imparted to the canvas O.

The dough is held down in the trough by means oi' the pressure bar J, which is suitably supported above the lower angle of the VA This bar is preferably thus held by being adjustably secured to the fixed side B.

For this purpose I provide bolts K extending out from l the pressure bar through slots L formed in the fixed side B. Butteriiy nuts M on the bolts K provide means whereby the pressure bar may be clamped and adjusted. This pressure bar is preferably concave in cross section on its under side, as shown.

A lling piece N, preierably concave in cross section on its upper side, is secured to the lower edge of the xed side B to iill out the lower angle ot' the V.

A trough with two inclined sides and two rounded corners is thus provided through which the dough is rolled by the movement of the traveling band and up which it is elevated. The pressure bar holds the dough down in this V-shaped trough, and the canvas surface lying in a plane inclined from the perpendicular plane passing through the axis of the trough necessarily tends to work the dough up the trough while the Contact with the opposite inclined fixed side has a retai-ding tendency on the other side of the dough so that a rolling action necessarily accompanies the upward movement of the dough.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. Dough elevating and handing up mechanism, comprising a substantially V-shaped inclined trough having one side formed by a traveling band having the plane of its surface inclined from the vertical plane passing through the axis of the trough.

2. Dough elevating and handing up mechanism, comprising a substantially V-shaped inclined trough having one side formed by a travelingr band having the plane of its surface inclined from the vertical plane passing through the axis of the trough; and a pressure bar located above the lower angle of the V. l

3. Dough elevating and handing up mechanism, comprising a vsubstantially Vshaped inclined trough having one sidetormed by ya 'traveling band having the plane of its surface inclined from the vertical plane passing through the axis ot' the trough; and a pressure bar located above the lower angle of the V, and adjustable to and from the saine.

4. Dough elevating and handing up mechanism, comprising a substantially V-shaped inclined trough having one side formed by a traveling band having the plane of its surface inclined from the vertical plane passing through the axis of the trough; and a pressure bar located above the lower angle of the V, and concave in cross section on its under side.

5. Dough elevating and handing up mechanism, comprisingl a substantially V-shaped inclined trough having one side formed by a traveling band having the plane of its surface inclined from the vertical plane passing through the axis of the trough; a pressure bar located above the lower angle of the V and a filling piece in the lower angle ot' the V.

G. Dough elevating and handling mechanism, comprising an inclined closed trough; an endless band conveyer run ning through the trough from end to end and having the plane ot' its surface inclined from the perpendicular plane passing through the axis of the trough; and a backing for the band.

Glencoe, Ont., eighth April, 1907.

` ALFRED n. Anneau.

ln the presence of- W. D. Moss, ETHEL SIMPSON. 

